HAMPTON, Iowa — It was quitting time. Edith Rivera took one last lunch order, dropped off a basket of tortilla chips and set off from work, heading out to the farm roads where other immigrants feared to drive. Like them, Ms. Rivera, 33, had no legal status in the country where she had lived for 18 years. She had no driver’s license, apart from the long-expired North Carolina identification she held safe, like a talisman, in her wallet. But as she skimmed past the northern Iowa cornfields on her way to her son Steven’s seventh-grade track meet, she did not

Comments:I have limited sympathy for illegals - The husband of this family committed ID fraud, and was caught multiple times entering illegally. They knew what they were doing. No mention of the handouts they received in their 18 years in the U.S for their U.S. born anchor baby.

The media has been feeding us individual sob stories for as long as I can remember, and on an individual basis these stories seem very touching (which is why the reporters write them). However, just to educate this woman´s child through the 8th grade, cost taxpayers $90,000. How many "free´ (to them) ER visits have taxpayers paid for? How much in EBT have they received through their son, who was born (no doubt at taxpayers´expense) in America? When are these reporters going to accurately report the real cost to taxpayers of an immigrant family? This family has a single child, many illegals have 3 or more children.

America is nearly 20 trillion dollars in debt. Many of our communities are now violence plagued barrios. Many high schools in the southwest are now ranked among the worst schools, overrun by Mexican gangs. Many hospitals are near bankruptcy due to the free care that by law they must give illegal aliens. Enough. I am truly sorry, but go home.

If we can pick and choose laws to obey, like immigration laws, I choose to shutter the New York Times. To Hades with their First Amendment rights...and I would expect to find plenty of Federal judges who would extend the same courtesy to my biases as to those they exempt from the President´s lawful authority.

Listen up, Edith Rivera. You´re a criminal. You and your husband aren´t supposed to be here. Your child wasn´t supposed to be born here. You´re driving around without a license - and, I´ll bet, no insurance. Get out of my country and don´t dare come back.

Listen up, New York Times. These stories make us mad, and harden our resolve.

It is hard. It is hard to give back a stolen life. Illegal immigration needs to be stopped. Children born of women illegally present in our country should not have birthright citizenship - fruit of the poison tree. The legal immigration process also needs to be repaired and those people who applied openly and properly be served. Why should Marco and Maria wait years and pay hundreds of dollars while Micaelo and Margarita barge in free and get to stay?

HAMPTON, Iowa — It was quitting time. Edith Rivera took one last lunch order, dropped off a basket of tortilla chips and set off from work, heading out to the farm roads where other immigrants feared to drive. Like them, Ms. Rivera, 33, had no legal status in the country where she had lived for 18 years. She had no driver’s license, apart from the long-expired North Carolina identification she held safe, like a talisman, in her wallet. But as she skimmed past the northern Iowa cornfields on her way to her son Steven’s seventh-grade track meet, she did not

Thanks to a little-noticed auction sale, a South Bay couple are the proud owners of one of the most exclusive streets in San Francisco — and they’re looking for ways to make their purchase pay. Tina Lam and Michael Cheng snatched up Presidio Terrace — the block-long, private oval street lined by 35 megamillion-dollar mansions — for $90,000 and change in a city-run auction stemming from an unpaid tax bill. They outlasted several other bidders. Now they’re looking to cash in — maybe by charging the residents of those mansions to park on their own private street.

The parents of terminally-ill baby Charlie Gard have ended their legal challenge to take him to the US for experimental treatment. A lawyer representing Chris Gard and Connie Yates told the High Court that "time had run out" for the baby. It means Charlie will not reach his first birthday on 4 August, his father said afterwards on the court steps. "To let our beautiful little Charlie go", is "the hardest thing we´ll ever have to do," his mother said. They made the decision because a US doctor said it was now too late to give Charlie nucleoside therapy. "We only

On June 28th, President Trump convened a roundtable at the White House that included victims of crimes committed by undocumented immigrants. The event was part of the Administration’s push to pass several new immigration bills designed to, in Trump’s words, “close the dangerous loopholes exploited by criminals, gang members, drug dealers, killers, terrorists.” A regular theme of the Trump Administration’s messaging on immigration has been to present undocumented “bad hombres” as an immediate threat to the safety and cohesion of the American family unit. But some of Trump’s immigration policies, in themselves, have endangered families across America. The stories below,

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The U.S. Supreme Court is ready to get back to normal. And that means Justice Anthony Kennedy is still in charge. The justices closed their nine-month term this week with a new list of major cases they will hear -- and without a retirement announcement from the 80-year-old Kennedy. It sets up a 2017-18 term that will have a full complement of nine justices and a group of ideologically charged cases in which Kennedy is a good bet to cast the pivotal vote. Highlights include a fight over partisan gerrymandering, a clash pitting gay rights against religious freedoms, and the

A lecturer teaching slave history at the University of Tennessee Knoxville has been fired following a dispute with a black student who accused her of being racist. Judy Morelock, a lecturer in the department of sociology, was terminated in April after the dispute with student Kayla Parker. The argument was based on a multiple-choice exam question about the impact of slavery on African American families. After the student challenged her teacher, Ms Parker says the lecturer unleashed a string of posts attacking the student on Facebook. A spokeswoman for the university would not confirm why Morelock was removed part way

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has been in recent headlines with a recent launch of a spy satellite. In fact, SpaceX is better at well managed and scripted messaging than it is at actually launching cargo into space in a timely and successful fashion. Always the public relations maestro, Musk announced that he plans to reuse every major component of the rocket by 2018. One of the themes SpaceX has carefully crafted is that it represents the future of “free-market” space flight. The problem with this public relations hype is that it bears little resemblance to reality. Whether it is SpaceX or Musk’s

Hillary Clinton is on her loser tour. It’s been going on for a few months now, and it follows a familiar theme: she gives defiant speeches or interviews to empathetic audiences in which she makes it very clear there are myriad reasons why she lost the US election – but absolutely none of them has anything to do with her. Tuesday, speaking at a ‘Women for Women’ event in New York, Hillary reached dizzying new heights of self-delusion as she tried to explain away the most humiliating loss in American political history. ‘I take absolute personal responsibility,’ she said, and

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Fox News´s Kat Timpf slammed President Trump on Tuesday for his "disgusting" press conference in which he again blamed "both sides" for the violence that occurred in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend, stepping back from his direct condemnation of white supremacist groups a day earlier. "It was one of the biggest messes I’ve ever seen. I can’t believe it happened," said Timpf, a co-host of “The Fox News Specialists.” “It is honestly crazy for me to have to comment on this right now because I’m still in the phase where I am wondering if it was actually real life —

Evidence is turning up from, of all places, the Southern Poverty Law Center, as well as Breitbart and others, that this character, Jason Kessler, who organized the suspicious and supposed Alt-Right demonstration in Charlottesville, Va. that blew up in everyone´s face, is a cunning lefty holdover from the Occupy Wall Street movement and a former Barack Obama supporter. I smell Soros money, sabotage, and Democrat dirty tricks here. I´ve been suspicious of the nature of the violence at this supposed Alt-Right demonstration since the news first began breaking. It is no secret that radical elements in the Democrat left have

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President Trump should have left well enough alone. His Monday denunciation of costumed sheet-wearers and Nazi wanna-bes could have cleared the way for Americans of all stripes to focus their outrage on things that matter more than presidential words. That would be the violence that is infecting our politics and the frightening acceptance of it as the new normal. But Trump’s defiance yesterday is sure to keep the media pot boiling over his rhetoric instead of an ominous reality. Namely, that real protestors don’t carry baseball bats, crowbars and mace. Yet Saturday’s bloody clash in Charlottesville showed that many on

Former presidential candidate and current Republican Ohio Gov. John Kasich may be moving closer to mounting a primary challenge against President Trump in the 2020 election. Sources close to Kasich told Willie Geist of the "Today Show" there is growing a sense of "moral imperative" to run against Trump for the Republican nomination in 2020 following his controversial statements on the deadly protest in Charlottesville, Va. (Tweet) Kasich has long been critical of Trump. On Tuesday, Kasich criticized Trump´s Charlottesville comments, saying "there is no moral equivalency to Nazi sympathizers" following Trump´s tumultuous press conference. Kasich, who lost to Trump

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Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina warned President Trump on Wednesday that his “words are dividing Americans, not healing them” in the wake of the bloody clashes in Virginia that has sparked a national conversation about white supremacists and race. Mr. Graham also vowed that Republicans will “fight back against the idea that the party of Lincoln has a welcome mat out for the David Dukes of the world.” “Through his statements yesterday, President Trump took a step backward by again suggesting there is moral equivalency between the white supremacist neo-Nazis and KKK members who attended the Charlottesville rally and people like

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NEW YORK- They wash their hands of neo-Nazis and wag their fingers at leftists. They denounce a press corps they see as biased and controversies they view as manufactured. But in the frenzied blame game over the deadly violence at a rally of white supremacists, Donald Trump´s loyal base is happy to absolve the president himself. Even as Trump´s zig-zag response to the weekend bloodshed in Charlottesville, Virginia, has brought criticism from some Republican lawmakers, many men and women who helped put him in office remain unmoved by the latest uproar. "He has done nothing to turn me away from